The majority of maternal deaths are preventable: About three quarters of all maternal deaths are caused by postpartum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders such as pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, infections, unsafe abortion and other delivery-related complications. In theory, all of the major causes of maternal death can be treated with effective and timely clinical interventions. In practice, however, even if a woman manages to access prenatal care and deliver in a health facility with a skilled birth attendant, poor quality of care can be life-threatening. A study to assess the pregnancy outcome was conducted in the rural field practice area, PHC Kudutini of VIMS Ballari, Karnataka, India. This study period was of one and half year, wherein interpersonal interview was conducted with the help of predesigned and pre tested questionnaire. All those pregnant women who registered themselves in the PHC during the first trimester were interviewed during the first visit. It includes various variables like socio demographic, obstetric, various health service utilization. Educational status among the Antenatal Mothers it is found that 22.3% of pregnant mothers and 4.8% of their husbands are illiterate. Total literates among the antenatal mothers and their husbands are 77.5% and 94.9% respectively. Among those who are literate, maximum attended till secondary schooling i.e, 41.9% among antenatal mothers and 41.2% among their husbands followed by primary schooling which was 23.4% and 25.1% among the antenatal mothers and their husbands respectively. Socio economic status of the Antenatal Mothers it was found out that maximum i.e, 40.5% belonged to class III, followed by 34.1% in class II, and then 16.4%, 8.1% and 0.1% belonged to class I, class IV and class V
In most developed countries, pregnancies are planned, complications are few and outcomes are generally favourable for both mother and infant. Adverse outcomes are far more frequent in the developing world. The most severe adverse outcome of pregnancy is the death of the mother or her offspring. The adverse pregnancy outcome means those pregnancies which terminate causing high risk to the mother and child's health and life. Worldwide the number of neonatal deaths decreased from 5.1 million in 1990 to 2.5 million in 2017. However, the decline in neonatal mortality from 2000 to 2017 has been slower (41%) than that in post-neonatal mortality (60%) globally. This survey was carried out in the Kudathini Village, which is the rural field practice area situated 16 kms from VIMS Ballari. Ballari is a district in the southern part of Karnataka. There are 19.2% of study subjects who got married below the age of 18 years and the remaining 80.7% were married after 18 years of age. The percentage of consanguinity in marriage is 5.6% and rest 94.3% are non-consanguineous marriage. The duration of married life of most of the study subjects' i.e, 48.6% belonged to 1-5 years duration followed by more than 5 years i.e, 28.2% and rest of 4.2% were married for less than a year.
BACKGROUND India is doubly burdened with communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCD). Knowledge regarding morbidity profile is important for timely intervention so as to improve the quality of life. For effective health strategies, it is important to know the disease burden of a community. As for the effective preventive strategies, it’s important to know the information regarding disease burden and changing trends of diseases in the locality. Hence this study was done to find the morbidity pattern of urban population in Bellary district, Karnataka. METHODS A cross sectional study was carried out in Millerpet, urban health training centre (UHTC), Bellary, Karnataka. The respective UHTC covers 69195 populations, which has eight wards. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select the ward. The study was carried out in the selected ward and the study duration was for a period of 3 months. Based on the estimated sample size, 416 houses were selected using random number method. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software version 26 was used for analysing data. Descriptive statistics were used to describe socio demographic and morbidity conditions. RESULTS The most common morbidity among 416 houses were found to be diabetes (22.8 %) followed by hypertension (20 %) and musculoskeletal problems (9 %). Majority of the houses were of nuclear type and the most common age group was 31 - 60 (91.8 %) years followed by 13 - 30 years (80.8 %). 167 (40.1 %) houses had at least one morbidity and 451 (41.4) subjects had at least one morbidity. Socio-demographic variables like age group, family size, monthly income, occupation of head of the family and type of the family were found to be statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS The study revealed that non communicable are the most common diseases present and there is a need to further evaluate the factors responsible so that preventive measures can be taken at the earliest so as to improve the quality of life. KEYWORDS Morbidity Pattern, Urban, Bellary
BACKGROUND:Obesity is a complex condition with serious social and psychological dimensions, that affects virtually all age and socioeconomic groups and threatens to overwhelm both developed and developing countries. This problem is increasing in adolescents and various factors contribute to it. METHOD: A cross sectional study was conducted among 8, 9 and 10 standard students of high schools of Bellary city Corporation. The sample size was 792 and the technique adopted is stratified random sampling. Permission from respective authorities of schools was also taken. Data was collected using pre designed and pretested semi structured questionnaire which is self-administered. Body mass index was calculated based on physical measurements such as height and weight using standard methods. RESULTS: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is found to be 19.2%. The prevalence of overweight alone is 12.4% and obesity is 6.8%. Modifiable socio demographic factors are significantly associated with overweight/obesity. CONCLUSION: There is increased prevalence of overweight/obesity among adolescents and many factors associated with it are modifiable.
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